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Subject: [Leica] In the hands of its engineers, not bean counters
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Sun Mar 13 18:45:23 2005
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On Mar 13, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Brian Reid wrote:
>
> In the lab, we had a liquid-cooled version of it that we could clock
> at 1.2GHz. The problem with making those chips faster was getting the
> heat out of them.
>
The Alpha was an amazing piece of engineering, years ahead of the rest
of the business.
They never recovered from Microsoft killing the native the 64-bit
version of Windows NT for it.
I bet Intel was behind that one.
The Alpha reminds me a little of the Amiga... I still have my A1000 and
A3000 sitting in a closet.
Right next to my NeXT cube...
;-)
feli
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